Top 9 Quotes by Paul Fleischman

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

Paul Fleischman

Spring, Lakes, Cleveland

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

Paul Fleischman

Peace, Simple, Two

Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.49, Pariyatti Publishing

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Paul Fleischman

Race, Ethnicity, Class

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Paul Fleischman

Voice, Thousand

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

Paul Fleischman

Mean, Reality, Mindfulness

Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.52, Pariyatti Publishing

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

Paul Fleischman

Home, Garden, Circles

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

Paul Fleischman

Life, Friendship, Eye

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

Paul Fleischman

Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer